Featured Release This Week From The New Pornographers & Studio One Tracks Top 30 Playlist

According to the band's website: "The New Pornographers are AC Newman and a group of ridiculously talented people uniquely equipped to realize his musical ambitions." That sums it up pretty well. Carl Newman wrote all of the songs on their fine new record Whiteout Conditions, ably supported by Neko Case, Kathryn Calder, Todd Fancey, John Collins, Blaine Thurier and Joe Seiders. Dan Bejar decided to sit this one out. Many of these people write songs and release records of their own. Indeed, the New Pornographers have functioned as more of a musical collective than a band from their beginnings in Vancouver in 1997. Even after twenty years, the lineup (with a couple of changes) has remained more or less consistent. Whiteout Conditions is their seventh studio album, brimming as usual with urgent hooks and exuberant harmonies.